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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
FOREIGN.

The French wheat crop will exceed that
of last year by about 100000,
hectolitres. The harvest reports from
Russia are favorable.
PRINCE FERDINAND of Saxe-Coburg has
started for Bulgaria, accompanied by NJ.
Natchevitch, the Bulgarian foreign min
lister. The prince has resigned from the
Austrian army.
HE Paris newspapers condemn Gener-
al Boulanger's last letter about the Ferry
affair as transparent to keep himself
before the public M. Ferry, it is thought
will not deign reply.
IT is semi officially stated that owing
to the change in Bulgarian affairs the
Porte has abandoned its projected circu-
lar to the powers. 1t is further stated
that if Prince Ferdinand assumes power
the Porte will expect the powers to with
hold their cognizance until Turkey recog-
nizes the Prince.
TIE new Hawaiian government is in
vestigatlng the peculiar transaction of
the syndicate which placed the recent
loan in England. The contract with the
syndicate allowed 5 per cent. commission
and 2 per cent. expenses, and it is claim
ed that the syndicate attempted to squeeze
large sums out of the government for al
legged expenses in addition to the amounts
to which it was Untitled under the con-
tracts. The Honolulu boodlers seem to
have been about as cheeky rascels as the
gang commissioners of Cook county.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The granary of Walter Coe il Sons,
Comstock, Mich. was destroyed by fire
Monday, with loss of $4,000.
BOY named Johnson, son of Galena
Gn.,) farmer, was gored to death by a
bull Monday night.
JOHN M. CLAY, son of Henry Clay, died
near Lexington, KY, Wednesday, of
heart disease. He was 81 years of age.
The building at Concord, N. H., occu-
pied by Monroe & Co. and Cropley & Co.,
shoe manufacturers, and nine dwellings
we're burned Tuesday night, creating a
loss OF $135,00O.
The sidewheel steamer City of Ash
land, Captain Doherty, was burned to the
waters edge, Monday, while six miles
from Ashland, Wis. One sailor was
drowned.
MARBLE Il Co.'S paper mill, at West
Newton, Pa, the Oldest west of the Allie
ghany mountains, was destroyed by fire
Thursday. Loss, $4,000.
RENvILLAR, Mimi, was visited by de-
structive tornado late Wednesday after
noon, and almost every building in the
town suffered. Mrs. Ham was instantly
killed and Gustav Kriger was fatally in
jured.
The giant powder works at West Berk-
lev, six miles from San Francisco, Cal,
were destroyed by explosions, Thursday.
The shocks were distinctly felt at San
Francisco and other points. Eleven work
men were injured.
Two YOUNG ladies, Miss Miller, of Full
ton, Wis, and Miss Henderson. of north
ern Illinois, were drowned in Lake
Kegonsa, near Stoughton, Wis. Thursday.
Their boat was capsized by sudden
storm. Two companions were saved.
AT st. Louis Wednesday morning the
walls of the burned building of Bishop d
Spear collapsed, carrying with them a
portion of the walls of the wholesale
grocery house of J. Alkire il Co. num-
Der of firemen were buried under the
debris, three being killed and four others
wounded, one fatally.
An attempt to extinguish the fire that
has been raging for several days IN the
Calumet and Hecla mine, by forcing car
bonic acid gas down the pipes, came near
resulting in the death of four men who
went into the shaft to stop some crevices.
| One of them was overcome by the gas,
and his companions removed him at great
peril to their own lives.
THIRTY kegs of powder in the Warren
powder mill, at Warren, Me-, blew up,
killing George Shepherd, a workman.
| The same mill was blown up six months
ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Strikes and Assessments.
PHILADELPHIA TELEGRAPH.

Said Chief Engineer Arthur, of the
Brotherhood of Engineers, "Strikes mean
assessments, and assessments mean death
to the organization" He was right, and
the course of the Knights of Labor has
proved it. The last Chicago strike, the
Journal of that city proves by carefully
prepared statistics, inflicted loss in wa
ges alone upon the workihgmen there of
S.. 463, 900. And another authority shows
that during the last two years, beginning
with the great railroad strike, the Knights
of Labor have by their strikes caused a
loss of wages of upwards of $10,OOO,0OO.
The general master wOrkmen, the execu-
tive committee, the master workmen, the
walking delegates, have lost not one cent
of this, neither did they pay assessments
to assist the losers of it. But the real
workingmen have felt it. They have felt
too, the unnatural policy of the order
which makes them and their employers
enemies instead of friends; and they have
grown tired of it. They are Indifferent
to the order, they are leaving it, and
soon between their Indifference and the
antagonistic combinations of employers
against it, the order will cease to have any
significance, much less dangerous exis-
tence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
men had been drinking, and the murder
followed nrick ON q rancrk of Eroib11rcr

men had been drinking, and the murder
followed quick on remark of Freiburg.
ALEXANDER WALKER, colored prohlbi-
ZIONIST orator, has died from the effects
of injuries received in Prairie Grove,
Texas, last week, at the hands of mob
of i-prohibitionists.
The divorced wife of Peter William
Thompson, of Fort Wayne, Ind, who Sc
cured her decree Monday, visited her for,
mer home Tuesday to get her clothing
Thompson fired at her twice, infiicting a
slight wound, and then blew out his own
brains.
TWELVE miles north of Macon, Ga
Captain Richard Woolfak, farmer, his
his wife, four children, and an aunt of
Mrs. Woolfak, wero found dead in the
house with their throatt cut. Tom Wool
fax, son of the captain by former
wife, is under arrest on suspicion of be-
ing the assassin.
FRED HoYT, alias Welcome, murderer,
was executed by shooting in the yard OF
, the penitentiary, near Salt Lake City
U. T., Friday afternoon. He was calm
and elf-possessed, and smoked to the
last. At the first discharge two bullets
pierced his heart, and death was instan-
taneous.
FRANK BROWN, in charge of deputy
United States marshal, has arrived at
Fort Smith, Arkansas, where he has been
locked up on charge of murder. Brown
bears the reputation of desperate, and
in January last killed Pete Flynn in the
Choctaw nation, near the Texas line.
HALF-BREED named Van Moore, leader
of gang of horse thieves operating be-
tween Pierre, D. T., and the Black hills,
has been arrested and is in jail at Pierre.
He has made full confession, ina plicat-
ing some fifteen persons, and has told the
whereabouts of stolen horses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

The people of the Hawaiian kingdom
are beginning to take easy lessons in
practical self government. The new leg
islature will be composed of "a mobiles
and "a representatives Of the people, the
former serving without pay. After 1890
the mobiles and representatives will be
balloted for at the same time and place.
The pending elections to this new body
will naturally create much interest; for
If the natives can build with the ease
they destroy, the pending canvass will
show it. A convention of native Hawaii
ans was held at Honolulu July %, shortly
after the royal signing of the constitu-
ton. No candidates were nominated, but
it is not to be inferred that the conven-
ton adjourned in disorder. The gravest
course of disquietude is the distrust of
those natives who are practically cut out
from the elective franchise by property
qualification. Not dozen natives in the
kingdom possess the $4,000 necessary
even to vote for noble. This with the
unwise and suspicious provision that
Americans and Europeans can vote with
out losing their allegiance to their re-
spective governments, fully explains the
cause of the considerable native discon-
tent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Boudour Diplomacy.
Town Topics.

One of the bellies of last season, only
recently married has already changed
her maid four times. The fair lady is ex-
igeant to degree, and woe betide the luck
less abigail who fails to drape a dress by
the appointed time or who may happen
to be asleep when her mistriss returns IN
the small hours from ball, Maid No. 5
received a months notice one day last
week,
YOU'RE SO slow, I can't keep you any
longer"
But, madam" pleaded the girl-fren-
ch of course-"fgure to.yourself that |
am always thinking of your beauty and
your accomplishments Therefore my
work is retarded"
Maid No, got an old tailornade dress
an ivory brooch, and pair of boots that
very night. And she stays on.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

fifteen coaches, including five sleepers.
Two engines were required to pull it but
only one of these was attached eft the
depot, the other being sent ahead
to the other side of the Illinois river
bridge. At the depot before the train
started Engineer McClintock, who was
killed in the wreck, expostulated with
General superintendent Armstrng about
the way the train was made up, in
sisting that it should have been sent
out In two sections, but his words were of
no avail. 1t is said that very few of the
bridges on the p g. w. can stand the
strain of two such heavy engines as drew
this train, and this seems to be borne
out by the fact that the railroad officials
did not deem 1t best to trust both engines
on the bridges across the river here. The
calamity occurred on
COMPARATIVELY SMALL cU1yERT.
about ten feet long and not more than
twelve feet high. The engineer on the
forward engine saw the fire as he neared
the bridge, but supposed it to be grass
on fire. Too late he saw it was the Gull
vert itself ablaze, and upon this tottering
structure the train plunged, going at the
rate of thirty miles an hour. The first
engine passed over the chasm safe
ly. The second engine went into
the ditch, burying and killing Nc
Clintock, and in after it came the rest
of the train all the coaches except the
sleepsrs piling in and telescoping. For
an instant the sound of crushing timbers
was stilled; then from out of the awful
silence rose groans and cries of agony.
The flames leaped into the darkness and
storm arising, the wind and the rain
lent and added terror and dismay to the
awful scene. Even in her cruelty fate was
lenient for she w1lled that most of those
who were killed should die Instantly. A
passenger who was on the third coach
says that he was first conscious of Jar
and that when the cars went together the
noise resembled
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
The AnnattO Bush.
Rllra.l New Yorker

Rura' New Orker.
Few, apparently, who have used this
popular coloring matter in the dairy
know where it comes from. Reports
from the United States Consuls at Para,
Brazil, Panama and porto Rico give some
information upon the subject. The an
natto bush (Bixa orellana), varies in
height and shape. In Brazil it some
times grows to the height of 25 feet; in
Porto Rico 10 feet is the limit. The
flowers somewhat resembles apple bios
SONS. The seeds grow in pods. These
pods grow in clusters, and each pod con-
tains 20 to "a seeds. The seeds are in
closed in red, waxy pulp which furnishes
the coloring matter. The bush is Guilt
waited considerably by the Indians in the
valley of the Amazon. The Indians use
the pigment as a coloring matter for
their food. All kinds of food are highly
colored. The pigment mixed with turtle
oil is used to smear the bodies of the In
diaus. This is thought to highten the
beauty of the decorated individual as well
as to guard against the mosquito. An
infusion of the leaves drank hot is
thought by the Indians to be a remedy
for iaunaice. Small quantities are ex-
ported to Spain and to the United States.
In two years ending March, 1887, 81 ,435
pounds were sent to this country. The
annatto used here is said to be frequently
adulterated with red ocher, powdered
bricks, chalk, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
EARLY WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
The Art Known to the japanese Long Before
1t Was in Europe.

The Art known to the japanese Long Before
1t Was in Europe.
The art of wood engraving was known
in Japan, it is thought, earlier than in
Europe. The famous woodcut of ST.
Christopher was certainly anticipated
full hundred years by authentic examples
of japanese typography. 1t is not, how
ever, till the commencement OF the seven
teenth century that any lay application
of engraving can be traced. In fact, so
far as we know at present, the oldest
estimated book is an edition of the
famous classic, the 'Ise Monogatari,"
published ia 1908, but this and the vol
umes which followed it were coarse, and
scarcely equal to the contemporary wood
cuts of the Chinese.
1t was not until Moronobn appeared
on the scene that the real talents of the
japanese engraver were exhibited.
Chrome typography, effected by a series
of blocks printed in succession, was COM
paratively late, and like the simpler art,
it was derived from China. AS in the
latter case, it quickly attained a perfec-
ton which the inventors have never APP
preached. The first essays in color print
ing appear to have been introduced in
1865. The designers and engravers both
gained rapidly in experience and prof.
cheney, and although the best examples
work claimed no higher motive than
theatrical portraits and fancy represen-
tations of ladies of suspicious popularity
and gorgeous raiment, they offer some
thing that has never been equalled in the
same branch of art in Western countries.
Our present knowledge of Japanese
wood engraving supplies new and very
important chapter in the history of the
art, and one from which the amateur may
derive keen pleasure and the practical
engraver little measur of profit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Warrants out for the Fishermen

OSHKOSH, Aug. 8.-Warrants arg out
for three fishermen who have been VIC
lating the law. and war has been com
menced In earnest. Warden Wentworth
has written that he will come here if his
deputies cannot procurs a conviction
and that he will import (other deputies,
as he intends to enforce the law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
The Retort Courteous
Buffalo Commercial.

Bishop White, of Pennsylvania, was
sitting ono day at dinner with that bold
fnancier of the Revolutionary times,
Robert Morris, when the latter said:
Bishop, 1 have made my will, and have
devised to you all my Impotence" "In
that case," replied the Bishop, ''you have
certainly left ne the greater part of your
estate"
ayes, Bishop" interposed Mrs. White,
sand it is plain that you have entered
immediately upon your Inheritance"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
HOT IRON TOUCHING WATER.

The trucks dropped off letting the coach
es down. All the survivors tell similar
stories. Most of the Peorians being in
sleepers more of them escaped than
would have otherwise been the case.
Many of these were asleep and were only
conscious of a Earring when the acct
dent occurred. The latter speak in the
highest terms OF the noble efforts
of the people of Cnatsworth to give
succor and relief, yet all who
went there did not give aid. One of the
survivors relates that as the first engine
cleared the bridge the brush beneath it
famed up as if oil mad been ignited. He
was fast in the wreck and called for as
sistance. He was aided by some one out
side and as soon as he was safely out of
the wreck his rescuer grasped his watch
and tore it from him. Another man
was robbed of his chain, the van
dal failing to get his watch;
also the fingers of the dead were cut off
upon which were valuable rings. The
robbing of the dead and injured gave
rise to the terrible report that the Bridge
had been fired and
THE TRAIN PURPosELY WRECKED
for the sake Of plumber, but no conf
deuce is placed in the report here. 1t is
believed that the robbery was the work
of vandals who happened to be at hand.
Six out of fourteen who started from Eu-
reka were killed, and four of seven who
left Abingdon. Of five from one family
on board four persisted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Prince Lumtum and His Suit.
Omaha World.

Omaha World.
Mrs. Mugglers-Is that Prince Lum-
tum? Why. he's dressed just like any
one else.
Bystander-Of course.
"Why, I expected to see him rugged out
in all sorts of beautiful toggery. I don't
see what the papers want to deceive poor
folks the way they do and give me this
long wait for nothing"
''What did the papers say?"
'Tbey said that Prince Lumtum and
his suit had arrived"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

The firm of Henry Ives, of New York,
suspended Thursday with liabilities esti-
mated at $2O,OOO,OO0, and assets slightly
in excess of that amount. The announce
ment caused great excitement on the
board of trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

The secretary of the treasury has &C
cepted the offer of a Boston bank to sell
$25O,O0O four and one-half per cents at
Ito. All the other offers being above that
were rejected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
CRIME.

In quarrel over lawsuit at Owenton
KY, j. NJ. Bourne shot and killed his
nephew, James Bourne, Jr.
THOMAS FOSTER, horse buyer, shot and
instantly killed August Frieburg, at
Monee, ILL.,, late Tuesday night. The
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

NORTHEASTERN Iowa was visited by a
shower Wednesday night, and two inches
of rain fell. Pastures, crops and naviga-
tion will be greatly benefited.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

PRINCE FERDINAND continues to move
toward Bulgaria. The Sultan is reported
to be awaiting the action of the powers
in the matter. The Prince has issued a
circular letter to the powers, intended to
deprecate any opposition to his ascending
the Bulgarian throne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

FRENCH radical newspapers advocate a
that Signor Crispi, the new italian pre-
mier, to succeed Depretis, is a practical
admirer of Blsmarck's policy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

IT is said that Edward W. Pettus will
probably be appointed associate justice
of the supreme court of the United
States, to Fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Justice Woods.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

SHAFT No. 1, of the Ashland mine: near
Hurley, Wis, caved in Wednesday after
noon, at $50 o'clock. Three men were
killed outright and one other fatally in
jured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

The losses by fire in the United States
and Canada for the seven months of
1887 are $76,928,1OO as against $685.
100000 for the same time in 1886.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

AN excursion train of seventeen cars,
of which fifteen left Peoria, and the bal
ance left Bloomington, ILL.,, was wrecked
Wednesday night at bridge or cuIvert
crossing Vermillion river, a short distance
east of Chatsworth Ten cars and one
engine were piled upon one an other in
the wreck. Over one hundred dead bodies
have been recovered. The excursion was
bound for Niagara Falls, and the passen-
gers were gathered from Peoria and
points about there and along the line.
1t is one of the most destructive railroad
catastrophes on record in this country,
and will clothe in mourning the popula-
ton of a vast district of Illinois. The
scene of the disaster is in Ford county,
about ninety miles south and little west
of south of Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Skeletons Unearthed.

De PERE, Wis, Aug. 9.-Laborers ex-
cavating on Broadway unearthed two
skeletons of Indians, supposed to have
been buried there more than loo years
ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

GENERAL BoULANGER's irrepressible pen
has again been used, this time in writing
a letter of condolence to Madam Katkoff,
widow of the great Russian journalist
People will begin to think that Boulanger
is one of the "men entirely great" for,
thus far, his ''pen is mightier," or at
least more active, ethan mis- sword"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
a New Paper Sold.

MANITowoo, Aug. 10.-The Lake Shore
Times, of this city, has been sold by j.
S. and E. NJ. Anderson to I. and G. Kress,
possession to be given at once.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18

The financial situa ton and the fisheri 9
question were the principal subjects dis
cussed at the cabinet meeting Thursday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Trains RUNNING TO New GIaru

Trains 'Runntug to New GIaruS.
ALBANY, Aug. 10.-The Chicago. Mil
waukee d ST, Paul extension from Albany
to New Glarus is now open for business.
Trains commenced running on schedule
bime TODAY
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-08-18
Accounted J. M .Tennery and other Passenger:
on the LII Fated Train.

on the LII Fated Train.
Peoria, Aug. 1I-Several thousand peo-
pie were at the depot this afternoon
when the train arrived bearing the first
of the wounded from Chatsworth. The
crowd was SO large and SO eager to OBJ
tain a view that it was difficult to control
it. Accounts of the disaster were obtain
ed from several passengers on the train.
Mr.. j. M. Tennery, was In the first sleeper
and said: IT felt three distinct shocks
and then heard grinding sound and on
looking out saw that the car in which we
were, was directly over the fire, which was
slowly blazing on the stringers of the
bridge. I got out in safety and the
scene presented to my eye and ear was
one L wish 1 could forever efface from my
memory, but | know I never can. The
shrieks of the dying and the glaring faces
of the dead will always stay with me. To
add to the horror
IT WAS PITCH DARK,
save the fitful light of the fire under the
sleeper, which lighted the faces of those
about, only to make their fear and on
guish visible. On fan ,es1nor,sz, tbs If most &c
Ine corpses could be seen foam, which
showed that they died in agony. At last
| we secured some feeble lights, but the
| wind blew them out and about 2 o'clock
the rain poured down in torrents on
the unprotected dead and dying in the
hedges and corn fields adjacent. Our
efforts were divided between trying to
put out the fire and rescuing the dying,
whose cries for help were heart-rending
indeed. One poor fellow whose legs were
crushed beneath the timbers cried out in
his agony: "Relieve me, or I will kill my
SELF" which in short time he did by
SHOOTING HIMSELF WITH REVOLVER
which he took from his pocket. Mothers
ran wildly about crying for LOST children,
and wives for husbands. Strong men
were weeping copious tears over the
forms of their beloved wives. Prayers
and entreaties and groans filled the air
until daylight, when relief parties got to
work and removed the dead and wounded
from the scene. The bridge was on fire
before the train struck If.